Railway-car



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RAILWAY GAR.

No. 403,309. Patented May 14, 1889.

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Patented May 14, 1889.

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No. 403,309 Patented May 14, 1889.

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JAMES J. TREANOR, OF HASTINGS-UPON-HUDSON, NE\V YORK.

RAILWAY-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,309, dated May 14, 1889.

Application filed March 8, 1889. Serial No. 302,412. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES J. TREANOR, of Hastings-upon-Hudson, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Car, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to railwaycars, the object of the invention being to construct a car upon which wide stones may be transported; and to the end named the invention consists of certain novel constructions, arrangements, and combinations of elements, to be hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification,

- in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved car. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same, taken on line 00 x of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged crosssectional view taken on line 1 y of Fig. 2.

Prior to my invention it has been impossible to transport stones of overten feet in width over the railways of .the country, and it is to provide for the transportation of stones which exceed ten feet in width that I have designed the car forming the subject-matter of this application, the construction being such that stones which are fifteen feet and six inches wide and twenty-five to twenty-six feet in length may be transported without inconvenience or danger.

In constructing the car I provide ordinary standard trucks, 10, upon which there are mounted platforms 11, which. are connected by center and intermediate sills, 12 and 13, the outer sills usually employed in the building of platform-cars being cut away between the platforms 11. Above the sills 12, I mount a heavy longitudinal girder, 14, which in practice would be built up of a number of strips of timber, and upon the inner ends of the platforms 11 I mount A-frames 15, that are braced by struts 16, said struts bearing against the 'outer faces of the frames and against steps 17 that are secured to the outer ends of the platforms 11.

The A-franies support a heavy horizontal shaft, 18, which passes through caps 19, carried by intermediate A-frani es, 20, said frames resting upon the girder 14. At either side of each of the frames 20 I arrange knees 21, and between each pair of knees I place skids 22, the skids being held to place by bolts or pins 2, which pass through the d ownwardly-extending lengths a of the knees 21, the lower ends of said lengths a being formed with hook-like projections b.

The knees 21 are formed with semicircular recesses c, which rest upon the shaft 18, and when the knees are placed in the position in which they are shown in the drawings their horizontal arms (Z are engaged by bars 25, which bars are pivotally connected to the outer lower corners of the frames 20, the connection between the knees and the bars being established by means of pins 26.

In order that the car may be properly braced, I provide tie-rods 27 and 28, such rods passing beneath the frames 20 and being secured to the end sills of the platforms 11, and in order that the lower ends of the knees and the skids carried thereby may be guided to and held in position upon the A-frames I form the knees with projections 1', as shown in Fig. 3. v

In loading the stone upon the car above described the bars are turned down and the knees 21 are moved to the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3, in which position they are blocked. The stone is then transported to the position indicated by dotted lines, the edge of the stone resting upon the hook-like projections 19 of the knees 21, care being taken to so adjust the stone that the center of gravity will be above the shaft 18 after the knees have been returned to the position in which they are shown in full lines in the drawings. After the stone has been moved to the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3 the. block is removed and the knees lowered so that their lengths a will rest against the A- frames. The rods or bars 25 are brought into engagement with the arms d of the knees, and a bar or rail, 30, is placed across the outer face of the stone, the ends of such bar or rail being engaged by links 31, that are provided with turn-buckles 32, the links being connocted to projections 33 by hooks 34.

Proper ballasting of the car may be brought about by loading smaller blocks of stone upon the platforms 11 or by laying planks 0 and p, as shown in Fig. 3, such planks then providing for the introduction of ballasting-blocks, as indicated in the figure last referred to.

It will be noticed that the car above doseribed provides for the carrying of an exceedingly-wide stone in a manner such that neither edge of the stone will extend beyond the side edges of the ear-platforms, which carplatforms are of ordinary width.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. A car provided with end platforms and with a central longitudinal girder which rests upon said platforms, substantially as described.

2. A car provided with end platforms, a central longitudinal girder, A-frames carried by the end platforms, and a horizontal shaft supported by said frames, substantially as dc scribed.

3. In a car, the combination, with the end platforms, of a central longitudinal. girder, A-frames carried by the platforms, struts arranged in connection with the frames, a horizontal shaft arried by the frames, intermediate A-frarnes supported by the girder and supporting the shaft, knees mounted upon said shaft and formed with hooked lower ends and with laterallyextending sections, and skids carried by the knees, substantially as described.

4. In a car, the combination, with the end platforms, of a longitudinal girder carried thereby, A-frames carried by the platforms, a horizontal shaft supported by the frames, intermediate A-frames supported by the girder and supporting the shaft, knees mounted upon the shaft, skids carried by the knees, and bars connected to the intermediate A-frames and arrai'lged for connection with lateral extensions from the knees, substantially as described.

5. In a car, the combination, with the end platforms, of a longitudinal girder carried thereby, A-frames carried by the platforms, a horizontal shaft supported by the frames, intermediate A-frames supported by the girder and supporting the shaft, knees mounted upon the shaft, skids carried by the knees, bars connected to the intermediate A-fra'mes and arranged for connection with lateral extensions from the knees, links 31, and a bar or rail, 30, substantially as described.

JAMES J. TREANOR.

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JOHN (E. DoNoHUu, JAMES BoWLm-i. 

